Scientific data near [37.85670,-106.92970]

Search area extends approximately 2.2 km east-west and 2.8 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Mineral	county
Colorado	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Creede	quadrangle 1:24,000 scale
Del Norte	quadrangle 1:100,000 scale
Durango	quadrangle 1:250,000 scale
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Rio Grande headwaters	hydrologic unit
Rio Grande headwaters	hydrologic accounting unit
Rio Grande headwaters	hydrologic subregion
Rio Grande	hydrologic region

Geology of US states

Digital geologic maps of the US states with consistent lithology, age, GIS database structure, and format

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Unit	State	Lithology
Ash-flow tuff of main volcanic sequence	CO	Tertiary
Oligocene sedimentary rocks	CO	Tertiary

Airborne geophysical surveys

Aerial surveys of magnetic anomaly and gamma ray emission; older surveys were analog record which have been digitized, newer surveys collected data in digital form.

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ID	Data type	Description
San Juan Mountains '86	M-D	San Juan Mountains '86 7483 line km with spacing 0.53 km over parts of CO
Creede Mining District	M-D	Creede Mining District 531 line km with spacing 0.32 km over parts of CO
Durango '67	M-A	Durango '67 4441 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of CO
Durango	M/R-D	Durango 7306 line km with spacing 3.20 km over parts of CO

Estimates of undiscovered mineral resources

National Mineral Resource Assessment 1998: Estimates of the number of undiscovered mineral resources of gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc within identified permissive tracts (geographic areas in which mineral deposits may form).

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Tract	Deposit Type	Mineralization age
CR26	Epithermal vein, quartz-adularia	Tertiary
CR29	Epithermal vein, quartz-alunite	Tertiary
CR31	Hot-spring Au-Ag	Tertiary

The continental crust

Seventy-seven major components of the North American continent were delineated at a general scale (1:5,000,000); including the general composition, geological environment, and types of primary metals endowments that can be expected in each domain.

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Domain	Crust type	Region
Great Plains	Lateral-extensional orogen	Central and Southwest

Geochemistry of stream sediments in the US from the NURE-HSSR database

National-scale geochemical analysis of stream sediments and soils in the US collected and analyzed under the National Uranium Resource Evaluation program.

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Sample ID	Date collected	Sample type
5059744	1976-07-14	Wet stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves.
5059745	1976-07-14	Wet stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves.

Geochemistry of water samples in the US from the NURE-HSSR database

National-scale geochemical analysis of water samples in the US collected and analyzed under the National Uranium Resource Evaluation program.

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Sample ID	Date collected	Sample type
1043026	1976-07-14	Stream water sample filtered through a 0.45 micron membrane filter and acidified to a pH of less than or equal to 1 with reagent-grade nitric acid.
1043027	1976-07-14	Stream water sample filtered through a 0.45 micron membrane filter and acidified to a pH of less than or equal to 1 with reagent-grade nitric acid.

National Geochemical Database: Rock

Geochemical analysis of rock samples collected and analyzed by the USGS. This dataset includes and supersedes rock data formerly released as "Geochemistry of igneous rocks in the US extracted from the PLUTO database"

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Sample ID	Rock type	Rock name
D316907	igneous	rhyolite
D316920	igneous	rhyolite
D316921	igneous	rhyolite
W228085	igneous	felsic
W228086	igneous	felsic
W228089	igneous	felsic

Mineral Resource Data System

MRDS describes metallic and nonmetallic mineral resources throughout the world. Included are deposit name, location, commodity, deposit description, geologic characteristics, production, reserves, resources, and references.

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Site name	Development	Commodities
Bulldog	Plant	AG PB ZN
Conejos No. 2 Claim	Occurrence	AG
Jo Jo Tunnel	Occurrence	AG
April Fool	Past Producer	AG
Mallisa	Past Producer	AG
P. & E. Tunnel	Past Producer	AG
Colewood	Past Producer	AG
Teresa	Past Producer	AG PB
Casino Lease	Past Producer	AG PB
Manitoba	Past Producer	AG PB
Unknown	Occurrence	CLY
Chama	Past Producer	AG
Overholt Lode	Past Producer	AG
Sulphur Beds	Past Producer	S
Oro Y Plata	Past Producer	AU AG
Bethel	Past Producer	AG
Manhattan	Past Producer	AG
Mustang	Past Producer	AG CU PB ZN
Jackpot	Past Producer	AG
Grande Army #1-4	Past Producer	AG PB
Windsor-Governor	Past Producer	AG
Volunteer	Past Producer	AU AG
Annabelle	Past Producer	AG
King Solomon Mill	Past Producer	AG
Eclat	Past Producer	AU AG
Sulphur Tunnel	Past Producer	S
Creede District	Unknown	AG

Global assessment of undiscovered copper resources

Deposits, prospects, and permissive tracts for porphyry and sediment-hosted copper resources worldwide, with estimates of undiscovered copper resources.

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Tract name	Deposit type	Geology
Eastern Alkaline Province	porphyry copper	A belt of Tertiary alkaline granitic rocks associated with back-arc or postsubduction extension
Tertiary Central Plateau and Rocky Mountains	porphyry copper	Belt of middle Tertiary (Oligocene-Miocene) granitic to intermediate intrusive rocks & volcanics associated w/post-Laramide stage of magmatism in northern Mexico and Mid-Tertiary volcanic fields associated w/post-subduction extension in eastern Rocky Mtns

Prospect- and mine-related features on USGS topographic maps

Symbols indicating mining-related features digitized from historical USGS topographic maps in the western part of the conterminous US. Includes prospect pits, mine shafts and adits, quarries, open-pit mines, tailings piles and ponds, gravel and borrow pit

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Feature ID	Feature type	Feature name
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Prospect Pit	point
Mine Shaft	point
Mine Shaft	point
Mine Shaft	point
Adit	point
Adit	point
Adit	point
Adit	point
Adit	point
Adit	point	Mine
Adit	point	FD Tunnel
Adit	point
Mine Dump	polygon

Critical mineral deposits of the United States

Mineral deposit information drawn from USGS databases, industry reports, and scientific literature totalling 681 individual mineral deposits documented to contain critical minerals. Data are provided in Esri file geodatabase, Microsoft Excel, shapefile, and CSV formats.

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Deposit name	Deposit type	Critical minerals
San Juan Silver	Polymetallic sulfide S-R-V-IS	zinc